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No. 888,306. PATENTED MAR. 31, 1908. G. F. POGG.

ACCOUNT REGISTER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 28, 1907.

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ACCOUNT-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented March 31, 1908.

Application filed March 28, 1907. Serial No. 365,101.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. Foes, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Account-Registers; of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompai'rying drawing.

My invention relates especially to that class of devices employed for mechanically keeping records of accounts, dispensing with the usual book-keeping heretofore required, and has for its object the provision of an effective and complete structure wherein the totals of the credits are added, and a record is made of each individual credit, as the credit-bill is placed in its appropriate coinpartment.

To attain the desired end, my invention consists in certain novel and useful. combinations or arrangements of parts, and peculconstruction and dperation, all

scribed, and then pointed out in the claims.

. In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation and partial vertical section of my improved account register. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the front portion of the register, and partial horizontal -section. Fig. Bis a horizontal sectional view. Fig. dis a vertical, sectional View at line cc of Fig. 3, and Fig. 1" is a plan view of the detail shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the register on a reduced scale, and Fig. 6 is a side elevation on the same scale. Fig. 7 is a perspective detail view (if-an operating segment 32. Fig. 8 is an elevation of the printing and add ing wheels looking from the right towards the left of the mechanism in the lower portion of the casing as shown in Figs. 1. and 3. Fig. 9 is a plan View of the outer ends of the bars 10- and the connected parts.

Like numerals of reference, wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

1 is the bottom ofthe casing of the register, made of any approved material, and 2 is theback.

3 is the top of the lower portion of the easing, and 4 is the top of the back portion.

5 is the front of the lower portion, provided with drawers 6 and 7.

8 is a horizontal plate fixed within the front portion of the casing, and 9 is a guideplate, provided with perforations 10, located a short distance above the plate 8;

11 are vertical bars, inovably inountedin the perforations in the plate 9, and in corresponding perforations in the top-piece 3. On each bar 11, beneath the plate 0, are stops 12.

13 are springs which surround the lower portions of each bar 11 and find a bearing against a stop 12 and the plate 8, as particularly illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing. One side of each bar 11 bears a stud 14, and on one edge of each of said bars is a projection having a beveled face 15, and a step 1.6. On the opposite edge of the bar 11 is a second projection having a beveled face 17. There are four rows of these bars 11, each row consisting of nine bars; the upper extremities of the bars bear manipulating knobs or buttons 18, numbered from one to nine, both inclusive, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing.

19 is a horizontally movable plate, provided with slots 20 and supported 111 place, so as to permit horizontal movement, by rods 21. A plate 19 is provided for each row of bars 11, and such plate will hereinafter be termed a "locking-plate. A plate 19 normally occupies the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawing, and when moved towards the front of the register in operating the same, will be returned to its initial position, when released, by means of a s )ring 2'3.

In order to lock the mechanism of the register against accidental movement, a series of dogs 101 are fixed upon a horizontal shaft 102, the said dogs being arranged to take in slots 103 in the locking-plates 10. An arm. 104 on the shaft 102 bears a rod 105 which passes through the top-piece 3 and carries a ina-ni nilating knob 106.

107 is a horizontal pin passing through the rod 105, arranged to catch beneath the toppiece 3 when the bar is depressed and rocked forward, and 108 is a spring which will catch over the free extremity of an arin 1.35, hold ing the dogs out of engagement with the slots 103 during the operation of the register.

136 is a horizontal bar provided with perforations 137 through which the springs 108 extend, the object of the bar being to so conmeet the springs that they must always act in unison, and move backward and forward together, holding the dogs 101 out of engagement with the slots 103-in the plates 19, or

permitting such engagement, as required by the movements of the mechanism of the register.

138 are stops against which the bar 136 finds leverage in acting to release the dogs 101.

In order to lock the drawers containing the ened excepting arranged to ermit movement of the drawers 96 when the ar 113 is dropped.

When it is desired to revent any mani lation of the register, a lbck 115 is provi ed, having a projecting finger- 116 which is. arrange to pass beneath the pin 107, holding the rod 105 against depression. When unlocked, the finger 116 swings away from beneath the pin 107.

23 are horizontal, longitudinally movable bars, each provided with a depending car 24 having a slot 25 in which one of the studs 14 on a bar 11 is arranged to play. The inner end of each bar 23 is slotted at 26.

27 is a shaft mounted in bearings 28.

29 are hubs loosely mounted on the shaft 27. The side of each hub is cut away 31 are fixed in the shaft 27 limitin tion of the hubs thereon, as particu trated in Fig. 7 of the drawing. Secured to each hub 29 is a toothed segment 32. Pivoted to each segment 32 is a vertical bar 33, having at one side a stop-piece 34. A spring 35 engages each segment 32 and serves to draw such segment downward when permitted to move, the segment being normally held against movement by the'stop-piece 34 resting on a plate 19. At the outer extremity of the shaft 27 is a crank 36 to which is connected a vertical bar 37 having therein a notch 38. V

39 is the master key of the register, mounted on a lever 40, fulcrumed at 41. v

42 is a finger pivoted to the lever 40, and having a step 43, this finger 42 being forced forward at its free end by a spring 44 mounted on the lever 40.

45 is a fixed wedge extending downward from the under side of the top 3.

46 is a spring for returning the lever 40 to its original position after being de ressed.

the rota- 47 is a stri of paper passing rom a roll beneath a roller 48, over a roller 49, and between a roller 50 and a feeding wheel 51, the shaft 52 of which is provided with a ratchet 53 and a. movable arm 54 having thereon a' dog 55; from the arm 54 a rod 56 extends to a pivot on the bar 40.

58 is a shaft whefeon'are loosely mounted printing wheels 59, 60, 61 and'62, each proor removed, a'-

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vided with an attached gear 63 which. meshes with one of the segments 32.

6,4 is a fixed shaft whereon are loosely mounted gear wheels 65, 66, 67 and 68, each of these gears meshing with one of the gears 63, and with a gear 69 loosely mounted on a fixed shaft 70. I

71 is a ratchet wheel secured. to the first gear 69.

72 is the first total adding wheel, provided with figures from O to 9 on its periphery, loose on the shaft 70, and having on one side a disk 73 wherein is a'single notch or tooth 74, this disk is so shaped that as it rotates it will first pull; an engaging dog forward, and .then release said dog, the stem whereof rides on the periphery of the disk.

75 is a ratchet wheel secured to the second adding wheel 83.

76 is a do pivoted to the disk 73 and arranged to ta 'e in the teeth of the ratchet 71.

77 is a dog for preventing backward movement of the ratchet 75.

78 is a dog pivoted to a horizontally movable bar 79 and arranged to take in the notch '74 of the disk 73, and 80 is a dog, also pivoted to the bar 79, arranged to take in the ratchet wheel 75. The bar 79 is drawn forward by the dog 78 catching in the notch 74 of the disk'73 with each revolution of said disk,

and the bar 79 inits forward movement causes the dog 80 to move the ratchet 75 and wheel 83 the distance of one tooth of theratchet, the dog 80 dropping back one tooth only when the dog 78 is released.

81 is a bearing wherein the several bars 79 move, and 82 are springs for drawing the bars 79 back to their initial ositions after the dogs carried by same bars have acted.

83, 84 and 85 are the second, third and fourth adding wheels, arranged in the same manner as the first wheel 72.

86 and 87 are the last wheels of the total adder which are operated by the last pair of dogs 78 and 80, and not from the printing mechanism which is illustrated in Fig. 8 of the drawin The tota addition may be read at a glance through the glass 88 set in an opening 89 in the top 3 of the case, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing.

90 is a yoke pivoted at 9-1, and bearing an arm 92 carrying a printing platen 93 arran ed to raise the paper 47 up toward the printing. wheels.

117 is a printing ribbon located between the paper and the periphery of the printing wheels. The lifting of the platen 93 is accomplished throughthe medium of-a bar 94 pivoted to a bar 95,wl1ich in turn to the master key lever 40.

96 are drawers, mounted one above another, and lettered or indexed on the front, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawing, These drawers are preferably made of metal, and

is pivoted clip pivoted in the front of the drawer, andv terminates in a knob 100 which not only serves as means for turning the clip upward to insert or remove a credit bili, but alsoas i'neans for pulling the drawer outward. To the rear of each drawer 96 is attached a pair of straps 119 which are wound on drums 120 mounted on. a shaft 1.2]. fixed to the casing at this shaft bearing a coiled spring 123 which engages the drums 120, and will be coiled up tightly on the shaft 121 when the drums are rotated in pulling out the drawer.

124-,are stops-against which the backs of the drawers hear, when closed.

Extending upward from the bar 95 at the side of the drawers 96 are bprs 125 and 126, provided with slots 127'anld 128.

129 is an inclined, outwardly-projecting.

tongue formed from the metal of the side of each drawer, as particularly shown in Fig. '1

of the drawing.

In order to cover the front of the drawers 96, when desired, I provide a flexible curtain 130 having manipulating knobs 131,- This curtain passes over the top of the tier of drawers, and has a counter-balancing weight 132, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawing.

When constructed and arranged in ac cordance with the foregoing description, the o )eration of my invention is as follows: Vi hile not in use, the curtain 130 is drawn downward, concealing the drawers 96, and the operating mechanism of the register is held against any movement by the lock 115. If this lock is turned, releasing the rod 105 against depression, the depression of said rod releases the dogs 101 from the slots 103 in the plates 19, and" at the same time drops the slotted, upright bar 113 at the rear of the drawers 96 so that the slots in said bar come opposite to the tongues 129 against which the solid portions of said bar engage when in the position shown in Fig. 1 of the drawil'lg. As the bar 105 is depressed, the dog 104 passes beneath the spring l08, holding the dogs 10] out of engagement with the slots in whee'l, and at the same 1 t1 which also meshes with the g locking-plate 19 ofthat rowof keys is force toward the front of the register by the bevel 15, the key-bar 11 continuing to descend until the step 16 permits the plate 19 to move slightly in a return direction, locking the key-bar from further movement, the bevel piece 17 of each of the other :ey-bars, resting upon the upper surfaces of the plates 19, looking all the keys excepting the ones first depressed, against any movement. At the first movement of a plate 19, it is drawn from beneath a stop-piece 34, permitting the segment 32 opposite that row of keys to be turned downward by its spring 35 until the stop 34 reaches the projection at the side of the inner extremity of the plate 23, said plate having been drawn forward at the same time as the plate 19 by the depression of key two acting on said plate through the medium of the slotted ear 24 carried by the plate 28, and the stud 14 projecting into said slot from the bar 11 of the key two. This action of the segment 32 will rotate the third gear wheel 63, and it's attached printing wheel-61 to bring two to the under side of the printing the gear 67, V ar 63, will turn the tdtal adding wheel 84, two points. The parts above described retain the positions into which they have been moved until released, as will be hereinafter explained. By depressing the five key in the second, row from the right, and the siX key in the first row the printing wheel 60, adding wheel 83, printing wheel 59 and adding wheel 78, are turned in the same manner. The keys two, five and six are held depressed and locked in the respective positions by the plates 19.

The adding wheels are held against any backward movement, While through the medium of the ratchet wheel 69 with which the intermediate gears engage the printing wheels are permitted to turn back to zero when the segments 32 rise, without moving the adding wheels. i

The appropriately indexed drawer 96 wherein the customers account is kept, is now pulled outward, the tongue 1.29 on such drawer passing through the slot 123 in the bar 126 slightly raising and then dropping said bar, preventing the return of the drawer to its fully closed position until a record has been. made by the register, as the back of the tongue 129 comes in contact with the bar 126, if pressure on the drawer is relieved. The continued outward movement of the drawer carries the tongue 129 through a slot 127 in the bar 125, raising said bar slightly/and after the passage of the tongue, the bar drops sulliciently to cause the tongue 129 to bear against its face, above the slot, holding the drawer wide open. The proper dip in the drawer is raised, and the credit bili placed beneath it. Master key 39 is now depressed, and the movement of its lever 40 carries the finger 42 downward until the step 13 thereon passes the notch 38 in the bar 37. The movement of the lever 40 also pushes the bars 125 and 126 upward so the slots therein coincide with the car 129 of the open drawer, which is closed throu h the medium of the spring 123. Release of pressure on the master key permits the spring 46 to act to raise the lever 40 to its original position, and in its upward movement the crank 36 connected to the bar 37 turns the shaft 27, and the pins 31 carry the hubs 30 and the segments wherewith they are connected, and which have been partially turned downward, back to their initial positions. Upward movement of the lever 40 feeds a blank space of paper 47 beneath the printing Wheels, and the downward movement of said lever raises the platen 93 so as to press the paper against the printing wheels, recording each individual transaction, whileto the total amount of sales or credits such transaction is added, and is readable through the opening 88. With each reciprocation of the lever 40 the paperis fed forward by means of the rod 56, arm 54, dog 55, ratchet wheel 53 and feed-Wheel 51.

As the lever 40 moves upward, the finger 42 is thrown out of engagement with the arm 37 by the projection on the fin er 42 passing up the face of the wedge 45. n its passage upward, the segment 32 raises the bar 33, and the beveled upper corner of the stop-piece 34 moves the plate 19 to the left sufficiently to release the step 16 of the depressed key-bar 11, and the plate 19 is pulled to the ri ht by the spring 22 until the stop-piece 34 as raised above the inner extremity of the lock-plate 19, permitting it to pass beneath the said stop to the position of rest' If the lockingkey 106 is not rocked forward, when a plate 19 moves to the left, its outer extremity strikes the spring 108, releasing the dogs 101, and they rest upon the surface of the plates 19 which have been moved, but when the plate 19 returns to the position of rest, the dogs will drop into the slot therein raising the bar 113 when the drawer which has been opened has been automatically closed, looking it again against being opened, and the entire mechanism against being operated.

Havin now fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. An account register in which is comprised a series of drawers for containing credit bills; a series of computing keys; a series of printing wheels; a series of total adding wheels; means for moving the printing wheels and total adding wheels in unison, and means for moving the printing wheels independently of the adding wheels, means for locking all of said parts a ainst movement; 'means for simultaneousl unlocking said parts, and means for automatically closing the drawers containing the credit bills. 2. In an account register, a series of computing keys; a series of printing wheels; a series of total adding wheels, and means for moving the printing wheels and adding wheels in unison, in combination with a series of drawers each provided with a closing spring and with means for holding in an open position, and a single key adapted to actuate the printing mechanism, adding mechanism, and release the drawer holding mechanism.

3. In an account register, a series of computing keys a series of independent, horizontally movable bars superposed one above the otherand arranged to be moved by said keys, each of said bars having a slot therein near its inner end, in combination with a toothed segment, a vertically movable bar carried by the segment, and independent means for moving said segment in opposite directions.

4. In an account register, a series of computing keys; a series of independent, horizontally movable bars superposed one above the other and arranged to be moved b said keys, each of said bars having a slot't ierein near its inner end, in combination with a toothed segment, a vertically movable bar carried by. the segment, and rinting wheels adapted to be rotated'b'y said segment.

5. In an account register, a series of rows of computing keys; a series of rows of independent, horizontally movable bars superosed one above the other, each of said bars iaving a slot therein near its inner extremity, in combination with a series. of segmental gears, each of said ears being provided with a vertically movable bar ;'a series of printing wheels arranged to be moved by the segmental gears, and a series of total adding wheels arranged substantially as shown and described.

6. In an account register, the combination with a key, and a horizontally movable bar connected to said key, of a toothed segment carried by a slotted hub loosely mounted on a shaft; a carrying shaft; a slotted hub; a pin rojecting from said shaft into the slot of the rub; means for drawing the toothed segment downward, and means for partially rotating the said shaft.

7. In an account register, a toothed segment carried by a slotted hub loosely mounted on a shaft; a carrying shaft: a slotted hub a pin projecting from said shaft into the slot of the hub; means for drawing the toothed segment downward and means for partially rotating the said shaft.

,8. In an account register, a toothed segment carried by a slotted hub loosely mount ed on a shaft; a carrying shaft; a slotted hub a pin projecting from said shaft into the slot of the hub; means for drawing the toothed segment downward; means for variably limit in g its dmvnward movement, and means for returning the segment to its initial position.

9. In an account register, a vertically movable computingkey; a horizontally mov able stop plate adapted to be actuated by said key; a perforated locking-plate through which the key-bars passes, and a segmental gear the downward movement whereof is controlled and regulated by'the stop plate and locking-plate t i 10. In an account register, a segmental gear carried by a slotted hub loosely mounted on a shaft; a carrying shaft; a slotted hub;

spring for pulling said gear downward, and

means for limiting the downward movement of said segmental gear, in combination with a master key-lever provided with means for raising the segmental gear to its initial. position when depressed.

11. In an accountregister, a shaft provided with a pin, a slotted hub loosely mounted on'the shaft, a toothed. segment carried by said hub, a crank attached .to said shaft,-.a notched bar carried thereby, a master key-lever and a finger pivoted in the same arranged to engage the notch in the bar and be released therefrom when the master Icy-lever is raised.

12. In an account register, the combina tion with a segmental gear bearing-a bar provided with a stop-piece, the bar, and the stoppiece, of a horizontally movable plate having a slotted ear, and a computing keybar connected therewith and controlling the movement of the movable plate and segmental gear.

13. In an account register, the combination with a series of computing key-bars, each. provided with a beveled projection and double step at one edge and a beveled projection on the opposite edge, of a slotted locking-plate through which *each key-bar passes; means for controlling the movements of the locking-plate; printing wheels, and independent, horizontally movable bars connected to the key-bars and adapted to control the printingwheels.

14. In an account register, a perforated locking-plate; computing key-bars passing through the perforations in the locking-plate; a dog arranged to take in a slot in the locking-plate; means for releasing said dog, and means for locking said dog against any movement. i

15. In an account register, lQc-king pIat-es provided with slots therein; a series of dogs mounted on a shaft over said locking-plates a series of connected actuating springs at the rear of the lockingplates, and means for holding the dogs out of engagement with the slots, and for causing them to automatically engage therewith.

16. In an account register, the combination with a series of keys and key-plates, and a series of credit-bill drawers, of a series of locking-plates provided with slots therein; a series of dogs mounted on a shaft over said locking-plates; a series of connected actuating springs at the rear of the locking plates, and means for holding the dogs out ofengagement with the slots, and for causing them to automatically engage therewith.

17. In an account register, a series of drawers for holding credit-bills; springs for automatically returning said drawers to a closed position after being opened; slotted bars adapted to hold a drawer against closing when opened, computing mechanism, and a master key lever connected to said slotted bars and to the computing mechanism.

18. In an account register, ,a series of rows of independent computing keys independent, superposed, horizontally movable plates,

each controlled by one of said keys; a lock ing-plate provided with a projection at its inner extremity, and a toothed segment adapted to be released from engaging said projection by the depression of either of the keys in a row.

19. In an account register, the combination with the computing keys, the horizontally movable bars controlled thereby, and the locking-plate therefor, of a toothed segment bearing a bar having thereon a stop-piece arranged to pass through a slot in the edge of a key plate, or engage with said plate, substantially shown and described.

20. In an account register, a row of computing keys and key plate; means for loelring all the other keys in a row against move ment when one of the keys has been depressed, and a toothed segment the movements whereof are controlled by the locking means, and limited by the computing keyplate.

In testimony whereof I hereto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES F. FOGG.

Witnesses:

Louis F. BRAUN, A. M. PIERCE. 

